Remember that one day when you could wake up without an alarm? When you would get your favorite bowl of cereal and sit between the hours of 8 and 12? This is a blog dedicated to the greatest time of our childhood: Saturday mornings. The television programs you watched, the memories attached to them, and maybe introducing you to something you didn't realize existed. Updated every weekend.

Created by Joe Ruby
and Ken Spears, the show was a parody of the popular ABC television series Charlie’s Angels.
The Teen Angels—comprised of their brilliant unofficial leader Dee Dee Skyes
(Vernee Watson), the cowardly Brenda Chance (Marily Schreffler), and the clever
Taffy Dare (Laurel Page)—stumbled across the frozen body of Captain Caveman
(Mel Blanc) and thawed him out. “Cavey,” as the girls called him, found
inspiration in his design from the Slag Brothers from the earlier Wacky
Racesseries; having a body almost entirely obscured by thick fur
except for his appendages and nose. He possessed super strength and flight, as
well as the ability to hide and pull anything from out of his hairy body and
eat almost anything. However, his abilities were often hampered by his limited
intelligence. His club also contained a variety of tools he could use on a case,
provided by a prehistoric bird that lived inside.

Captain Caveman
and the Teen Angels’ first season ran as part of Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics from September 10 to December 24,
1977, running one 11-minute segment per week. The characters also all appeared
in the Laff-A-Lympics segment of the
block as members of the Scooby Doobies team, filling in for the intended characters
from Josie
and the Pussycats, whose rights were held by Archie Comics. The 8-episode second
season remained with the block when it was reduced to 90 minutes and renamed Scooby’s All-Stars in 1978. In 1980, the
series graduated to its own half-hour for 16 more episodes.

Following the show’s
cancellation, Captain Caveman remained a Hanna-Barbera mainstay throughout the
80s, joining his prehistoric brethren on The
Flintstone Comedy Show and then The
Flintstone Kids, and appearing in numerous parodies and cameos in the
years following. The Teen Angels, however, weren’t so lucky as it took them
until 2011 to resurface in an episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery
Incorporated. In 1988, Castilian released a collection of 13 episodes on VHS
in the United Kingdom. In 2013, the entire series was released to DVD
by Warner Archive as part of their
Hanna-Barbera
Classics Collection.

EPISODE GUIDE:

Season 1:

“The Kooky Case of the Cryptic Keys” (9/10/77) – A key leads the gang
to a will reading at Skeleton Mountain where the Great Mysto plots to keep the
fortune for himself.

“The Mixed Up Mystery of Deadman’s Reef” (9/17/77) – The gang
investigates the mystery of a disappearing ship.

“What A Flight for a Fright” (9/24/77) – A jewel thief disappears from
a commercial flight, leading the gang to figure out how to catch him before he
disappears again.

“The Creepy Case of the Creaky Charter Boat” (10/1/77) – The gang
attends an actor party when a diamond necklace is stolen in a mystery that
resembles the actors’ play.

“Big Scare in the Big Top” (10/8/77) – The gang investigates the
disappearance of tigers from a circus.

“Dobule Dribble Riddle” (10/15/77) – A supposedly cursed basketball
team keeps forfeiting games, leading to their owner deciding to sell it to a
dubious buyer.

“The Crazy Case of the Tell-Tale Tape” (10/22/77) – The gang learns of
a robbery at the Smithsonian after a masked figure interrupts a television
broadcast.

“The Creepy Claw Caper” (10/29/77) – A rock band is ransomed for a
case of rare coins lest an age ray makes them old men forever.

“Cavey and the Kabuta Clue” (11/5/77) – An African Chieftain’s
skeleton comes back to life and kidnaps the owner of an art museum in order to
retrieve the golden mask he sold.

“Cavey and the Weirdo Woman” (11/12/77) – The gang helps their prince
friend retrieve his stolen scepter from a snow wolf.

“The Disappearing Elephant Mystery” (11/19/77) – The gang witnesses as
a rare white elephant disappears from the middle of a parade in India.

“Playing Footsie With Bigfoot” (12/24/77) – Athlete Juice Brenner is
kidnapped by Bigfoot, but even after being rescued his diminished performance
threatens America’s chance at winning the Spartan World games.

Season 2:

“Disco Cavey” (9/9/78) – Dancers at a disco on a cruise are robbed,
leading the gang to try and find the crooks.

“Muscle-Bound Cavey” (9/16/78) – While at a wrestling match the gang
witness as champion the Great Colosso is kidnapped.

“Cavey’s Crazy Car Caper” (9/23/78) – The new fuel and energy
efficient Condor car is stolen, leading to the gang having to investigate.

“Cavey’s Mexicali 500” (9/30/78) – While on vacation in Mexico, the
theft of an Aztec calendar leads the gang into entering a desert race.

“Wild West Cavey” (10/7/78) – A fake stagecoach robbery turns out to
be real in Dodge City.

“Cavey’s Winter Carnival Caper” (10/14/78) – The gang seeks to rescue
their friend, a professional ice skater, who is kidnapped.